She said: “As you come into Boston Spa from the A1 M junction you have a little bit where it turns to 40mph, then very quickly it becomes 30mph but a significant amount of people don’t slow down.

“They get to that junction where the children cross and some children do cross independently and they are bombing past at 40mph.

“You look both ways and you think you have an opportunity so you step out and somebody comes past and you have to jump back.

“I have had to jump out of the way of cars two or three times in the time that I have lived here.”

The heavily residential area has two primary schools and children’s centres as well as a community centre and a play park.

But the lack of sufficient crossing points on High Street can leave people waiting 15 minutes for an opportunity to cross over and access these,

Over the last few years, residents have noticed an increase in the volume of traffic, but Jennifer said the thing that really annoys her is the speed of traffic.

Mrs Kerr said: “On one occasion a car was turning to go left to go into the Deepdale centre and a car came flying round the bend and had to swerve onto the pavement just to avoid hitting the other car.”

After drafting the letter, Jennifer posted it around the local area and in the play park inviting people to sign it showing their support.

Immediately the letter was inundated with roughly 20 people putting their name to it every half an hour.